How about the trickle up of investing in the needs, abilities and hopes of everyday people, instead of telling us we will only gain when the most wealthy and connected get the first and largest slice of the pie?

Greg Abbott broke lots of bad news about himself last week, but as PDiddie at Brains and Eggsruefully noted, none of it really seems to matter. The attorney general will just hide from the media for a few days until the dark clouds blow over, while the TXGOP will blame the "librul media".

My father--Tony Aquino--was a Korean War veteran who saw a lot of combat.

Here is what Tony wrote about war and society---"One thing that I learned is that the young men who fought in our wars should never be forgotten…Another fact I learned…is that millions may serve but far fewer fight. So, in reality, for many who have served, war is a glory-and-gory myth that feeds on its own legends and publicity. …Another truth I learned is that civilians are combatants in war–embattled victims perpetually on a losing side….That brings us to the biggest deception: The need to be ready to defend our freedom if we are to keep it. Those who say that freedom has a price are absolutely right, and wrong: International conflict today is beyond ideology. The only freedom American and Russian leaders offer their people today is the freedom to kill ourselves in the name of freedom. This is not freedom, but allegiance to a suicidal death culture….Today, we are servile to our masters, mistaking economic well-being for true freedom, which is the freedom to live hopefully and not to die needlessly.” Here is the website of Veterans For Peace.

The reflexive and unthinking criticisms we hear so much of about government and collective action, serve no real purpose but to take away our ability to act on behalf of ourselves against greedy and powerful wealthy interests and individuals.

We've got to get past the idea that we can't discuss capitalism itself as a source of problems of modern America.